elderly man with a poor memory. tonight, the president and the white house now responding. also tonight, the high stakes showdown at the supreme court. the justices appearing unlikely to keep donald trump off the ballot. in new york city, the video just in tonight, the police body cam showing the attack on nypd officers in times square. the hunt for the suspects now believed to be asylum seekers who are now missing. the five u.s. marines killed when their chopper crashed. the pentagon pressed tonight on a string of aviation accidents. and was weather a factor with the storm slamming the west? tonight, the two officers shot. the home erupting into flames, and now the horror revealed. multiple family members believed to have been inside that home. tonight, the two american moms on vacation who say they were drugged and sexually assaulted in the bahamas. stopping off at a beach while on a carnival cruise. what they say happened to them. and tonight, news coming in of a
from democratic lawmakers about what could have been done better. although, the evacuation of more than 124,000 people from afghanistan was one of the biggest air lifts in history, it was marked by chaos and the death of 13 american service members. all the things the administration could have done differently, absolutely yes, as always. reporter: at times the hearing became a partisan battle. democrats pointing their fingers back at the trump administration s afghanistan policies. in afghanistan reporter: accusing republicans of relying on selective memories. i m going to assert that the events of august 14th had the direct antesee dant with a bad decision by president trump and secretary mike pompeo in 2018 to legitimize the taliban by bringing that face to face negotiations. blinken agreed that the trump administration officials did strike the deal with the
the taliban s taking. he has now armed them completely. in private, joe biden knew his afghanistan policies, well, they were rapidly collapsing, but instead of being honest with the we, the american people, instead of warning americans that were there while we had control of kabul, warning our allies while he had control, telling them we are going to we are going to speed up this withdrawal, leave immediately, he goes on national tv and says no, everything is great, one of the best trained armies in the world. he promised the afghan army was more than capable of defending the country. that is what he said in july, the same month he is going to tell, oh, that s right, the president of afghanistan, to live. look. the taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable? no, it is not. because you have the afghan troops, 300,000 well-equipped, as well-equipped as any army in the world.
as an editor and you know. this you know reporters sometimes go over the line. they write things and sometimes they are wrong. red flag is emotional involvement. if a reporter is too intense about a subject, you can t write about your own mom, for example, you can t have critical distance from it i don t understand where the editors are. if you hate trump, if you think trump is paul pot you are entitled to your opinion but you shouldn t be covering him. if they actually believe that how naive that r. these people that they would actually believe that that was serious. they didn t see they just ran and they typed away and like i m a little disappointed because some of those people, they are not stupid. you know, i mean i know some of those writers and i m like what are you thinking? was it just for was it just for clicks? are you that blind? it s amazing. tucker: funny thing we just came off a segment where i was criticizing harshly his afghanistan policies. that s so stupid.
coming up, we ll look at florida s controversial stand your ground law with dan gross. john mccain says republicans should drop their war on women s health while tennessee push a new bill that would i.d. abortion providers. bill burr ton is here with reaction. mitt romney can t make a decision on his afghanistan policies but he says the president s thoughts have failed. we re right back.